Mole - Concepts of a Mobile Agent System

25 pagesDue to its salient properties, mobile agent technology has received a rapidly growing attention over the last few years. Many developments of mobile agent systems are under way in both academic and industrial environments. In addition, there are already various efforts to standardize mobile agent facilities and architectures. Mole is the first Mobile Agent System that has been developed in the Java language. The first version has been finished in 1995, and since then Mole has been constantly improved. Mole provides a stable environment for the development and usage of mobile agents in the area of distributed applications. In this paper we describe implementation techniques for mobility, present communication concepts we implemented in Mole, discuss security concerning Mobile Agent Systems, and present system services provided by Mol